EXCLUSIVE: Portuguese-based expertise company Hit Administration has employed Sara Puro-Steele within the newly created function of Managing Director.
Puro-Steele joins Hit Administration after 17 years on the London-based Impartial Expertise Group. Puro-Steele is a twin Spanish-British nationwide and fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. She has represented actors comparable to Ariane Labed (September Says), Olga Kurylenko (Thunderbolts*), Jonas Nay (Deutschland 83), and Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso).
Hit Administration was co-founded by João Louro in 2011. The Lisbon-based firm represents actors throughout movie and tv. A few of their shoppers embrace Afonso Pimentel, Inês Pires Tavares, Ricardo Pereira, Leonor Silveira, Simão Cayatte, and Laura Dutra. Hit Administration additionally operates alongside its sister PR and promoting company, mais que uma.
Discussing the transfer, Puro-Steele mentioned she has “all the time had a ardour for European expertise.”
“The distinctive work of my shoppers of their dwelling nations is exactly what makes them so enticing for worldwide initiatives casting within the UK and the US,” she mentioned. “I’m excited by the chance to assist information HIT Administration into its subsequent chapter, increasing our attain and persevering with to champion rising and established creatives on the worldwide stage.”
Not too long ago relocating from London to Lisbon, the corporate has mentioned Puro-Steele’s remit shall be to supervise the company’s strategic progress ambitions, significantly its objective of elevating Portuguese and Iberian Peninsula expertise on the worldwide stage.
Joao Louro, CEO, HIT Administration, added: “Sara’s expertise aligns completely with our mission to develop the worldwide visibility of Portuguese expertise. Her management shall be instrumental as we work to place Portugal—and the broader Iberian area—as a rising hub in world leisure.”
